About the Authors

Beata Ujvari

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Anne-Maree Pearse

Affiliation Devil Facial Tumour Project, Diagnostic Services, Animal Health Laboratory, Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Robyn Taylor

Affiliation Devil Facial Tumour Project, Diagnostic Services, Animal Health Laboratory, Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Stephen Pyecroft

Affiliation Devil Facial Tumour Project, Diagnostic Services, Animal Health Laboratory, Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Cassandra Flanagan

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Sara Gombert

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Anthony T. Papenfuss

Affiliations Bioinformatics division, The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Thomas Madsen

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

Katherine Belov

kathy.belov@sydney.edu.au

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BU KB. Performed the experiments: BU CF SG. Analyzed the data: BU TM ATP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMP RT SP ATP. Wrote the paper: BU TM KB.